I walk down the street and people don't go, 'my God, there he is.' I lead as normal a life as you can lead in New York City.

Christopher Hitchens was a wit, a charmer, and a troublemaker, and to those who knew him well, he was a gift from - dare I say it - God.

You know, I used to warm the thermometer on the light bulb... I was really good at being sick. I could forge my mother's signature on a sick note so well I was hardly ever at school.

Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill.

Many men think they're playboys but they invariably land wide of the mark. Surrounding yourself with champagne, fast friends and paid escorts is the very definition of the word 'loser'.

Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma.

I think the absence of socks on men wearing suits and brogues is a problem. They'll live to regret that.

As you get older and fatter, good clothes can hide a lot.

In less than a year, the Bush administration will strut out of office, leaving the country in roughly the same condition a toddler leaves a diaper.

Life is all about seating and lighting.

I might wear a dinner jacket once a year to our Oscar party - that's a big thing - but I don't go to parties. I'm social but I'm not a socialite person.

I feel so free and open to ideas, and I get inspired by everything.

A thousand suns rise from my chest.

In later years, during what might be called my gray-outs — when I was conscious but not myself — I craved foods that were almost always fattening.

As long as you are a part of the physical process of the existence, there is nothing that does not change.

It is the intelligent and highly educated that agonize over their limitations.

If I fell down and hurt myself, I never cried. There was no one to hear me.

Brew me a cup for a winter's night. For the wind howls loud and the furies fight; Spice it with love and stir it with care, And I'll toast our bright eyes, my sweetheart fair.

If you would not be known to do anything, never do it.

I believe profoundly in the importance of museums; I would go as far as to say that you can judge a society by the quality of its museums.

Everybody was on the same page. Nobody has really gone out there on a different musical journey. When we got back together again, we all wanted to do the same kind of music.